Subject: Multi branch / distributed development support - by: tekkie

Bhorsoft wrote:
We've been using SVN branching for a long time. Now we only work on release branches and never use the trunk - for us the trunk is like an appendix, it is there, but not needed. We only merge "upstream". Since we may be working on two major releases and a couple of patches for the same application, we rely on branches so we can work concurrently on different releases of the same code. We have had little problem merging from the earlier releases to the later release branches.

We've been using this system for over 5 years and have never lost or mangled a change in all that time.
I am glad that your business allows you to work in such a structured way, but really is that not every business has that luxury.

Subversion is a great tool if your branches and merges are predictable, unfortunately it can't keep up when branching/mergning becomes ad-hoc (yes I know this should be avoided but business is business).

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What's the future of Synergy with IBM? - by: tekkie

Stated shortly, it is business as usual. The tool is actively maintained and developed. There were problems about contacting support in the transition days, but now it works. And several support persons are the same.
The Telelogic web site was eaten by a huge IBM site, and is difficult to navigate. (like I heard of ClearCase.)
There is a long term plan to integrate Synergy and ClearCase in one platform, so if I were on the ClearCase side, I would wait. Other people may know more.
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Subject: Binary object management in AccuRev? - by: tekkie

Hi,
you'd have to manage this with pre-keep and promote triggers.

(I have such triggers in place. Not for the purpose you mention, but to a) make a smarter decisions of which files to store as text/ptext/binary, and b) to get notifications when certain types of files are being promoted, or the target stream is within a certain family.)

/Tomas

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